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Minimals A virtual zoo of miniature animals, collected on safari in the jungles of Worth1000! Click to enlarge... Miniature Celebrities Itty Bitty New York City Little Monkey, Yawns BigSource : cityrag (subscribe)Explore : Celebrity

Setting aside claims of vagueness, a divided federal appeals court is upholding the constitutionality of the Animal Enterprise Protection Act, a statute that makes it a crime to encourage “physical disruption” or “economic damage” against animal research centers. Thursday’s decision (.pdf) by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was the first time an appellate court [...]Source : Threat Level (subscribe)Explore : Crime and Lawsuits

GameLayers, an online entertainment studio, today announced a new social game Super Cute Zoo playable through Facebook. Super Cute Zoo allows anyone to collect and play with cute creatures, ranging from common household pets to wild exotic animals.Source : PR Leap - Recent News Releases (subscribe)Explore : Facebook, Leisure, Zoo

(YouTube Link) Princeton neuroscientist David Tank wanted to study individual neurons in a mouse’s hippocamus as it moves. But the movement of the mouse’s body prevented accurate readings. So he placed the mouse on a giant trackball and let it run through a virtual maze from the video game Quake 2 displayed on [...]Source : Neatorama (subscribe)

Top 5 TurboGrafx games by MSNBC. Too bad Legendary Axe isn’t available on virtual console yet. Whatever you do, stay away from Neutopia 1/2. That game is a stinker (you’re much better of with Zelda).Source : Infendo - Nintendo blog (subscribe)Explore : Nintendo, Nintendo GameBoy, Nintendo GameCube, Video Games

Some consider virtual reality to be akin to mere hallucination, whereas others see it as potentially on a par with physical reality. Both seem possible to me (depending on the precise nature of the VR we're imagining), so let's try to clarify matters by drawing some distinctions. First, we can consider the epistemic dimension of whether you remain aware (on some level) that you're in a virtual...Source : Philosophy, et cetera (subscribe)Explore : Relationships

This past week was not surprising for those of us tracking Facebook application growth. Social games continued to account for almost all of the top 20 fastest-growing apps on the platform, according to our AppData analytics service — especially the virtual farming genre of social games. Zynga, as it has over much of the summer, maintained [...]Source : Inside Facebook (subscribe)Explore : Facebook

In answer to the email that poured in after my blog next week, (cheers, Carol!) Snooker the cat is fully returned to health and has taken up her position as Most Senior Animal once more. She’s snubbed Arthur, wound up the kitten, Minou, and resumed being snooty to canine branch of the Gordon-Smith household. I [...]Source : Dolores Gordon Smith Blog (subscribe)

Thursday's decision by the 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals (.pdf) was the first time an appellate court has grappled with the free speech issues raised by the law, reviewing the case of radical animal-rights activists who were convicted ...

As the legislative season approaches again, I've been spending time trying to define what fundamentally divides the two sides of the animal legislation.

Fallouts and Diarrhea in the Virtual Barn New York (Oct.1, 2009)—Pfizer Animal Health announces the next “Virtual Walk the Pens” simulator scenario. The fifth scenario, available at www.individualpigcare.com/WTPGame, presents ...

His goal is to build a virtual animal—a rodent robot—with a mind of its own. Markram is candid about the possibility of failure. He knows that he has no idea what will happen once the Blue Brain is scaled up. “I think it will be just as ...

One of the more intriguing exhibits, presented by Texas A&M University's (A&M) visualization department, featured a "deep immersion," virtual-reality demonstration, through which people could experience the visceral life of an animal. ...

Game Creates a Virtual Playground with Nearly 100 Exotic Animals, a Unique Animal Creator Tool and Educational ...

Rating Summary: This is a pet simulation game in which players can use a game camera to interact with a simian-like virtual animal. Players and their pets can interact with objects and each other in the real world through a variety of ...

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